Opera 12 Beta introduces a number of new features including hardware acceleration, light-weight themes, redesigned security badges, out-of-process plugins, 64 bit builds, and enhanced HTML5 and CSS3 support. It also dumps a few old features such as voice technologies, widgets, and Unite.

Microsoft has created a new application class to accommodate third party web browsers, which would have had a tough time working solely with the restrictive WinRT API. Mozilla and Google are two browser developers that have already confirmed working on a Metro edition.

After remaining undefeated for four consecutive years, Google Chrome was finally taken down this year by hackers at Pwn2Own and Pwnium. Zero-day vulnerabilities present in Chrome were used to bypass the browser’s sandbox.

Facebook recently rolled out the Facebook Timeline to all users. Unfortunately, it does not have any option for users to disable it making several users angry about the fact. Here is a simple way to disable/hide the Facebook Timeline, at-least for yourself.

There has been a lot of hoopla about Google breaching privacy and circumnavigating settings in Safari. They have definitely been circumspect at what they are doing but a new report from Microsoft which says that Google did similar things with IE9 as well. Well, here’s the catch, there is nothing illegal Google did and Microsoft just let Facebook off the hook with it.